Fantastic exchange from DConf

[Joakim via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 17 May 2017 at 20:41:43 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 5/17/2017 3:21 AM, Joakim wrote:
>> Hmm, this talk has become the most-viewed from this DConf, by 
>> far beating
>> Scott's keynote.  Wonder how, as this seems to be the only 
>> link to it, hasn't
>> been posted on reddit/HN.  I guess people like panels, the 
>> process panel last
>> year is one of the most viewed videos also.

Heh, someone just posted it to HN:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=dconf2017%20walter%20safety

> I received -2 net votes on Hackernews for suggesting that the 
> takeaway from the WannaCry fiasco for developers should be to 
> use memory safe languages.
>
> Maybe the larger community isn't punished enough yet.

HN votes are an isolated case, but I'm not sure how much wider 
recognition there is that memory safety is a big part of the 
problem and that there exist viable languages that offer a way 
out, as Andrei said in the panel.  There is a long way to go in 
publicizing these new languages that offer better solutions.